You have less than a week to catch our picks for the five movies leaving Hulu in December that you have to watch.
We hope you’re enjoying the holiday season because as far as Hulu is concerned, the Huludays are over as of December 31. And this month, subscribers aren’t just losing Christmas classics like Elf and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The first three Matrix films, the Men in Black trilogy, the Blade trilogy, and three of the Jason Bourne movies are all leaving Hulu at the end of 2023. That’s a lot of coal in our collective post-Christmas stockings!
But since those are all films that we’ve written extensively about in the past, our picks for the five movies leaving Hulu in December that you have to watch include choices that range from two dramatic biopics to some of the best action and sci-fi stories that modern cinema has to offer. And our fifth pick is one of the most inspiring sports underdog stories of all time.Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
James Cameron was so passionate about Yukito Kishiro’s manga Battle Angel Alita that he held on to the development rights for the better part of two decades before handing off the directorial duties to Robert Rodriguez. The renamed Alita: Battle Angel film didn’t set the box office on fire like Cameron’s Avatar movies, but it has earned a cult following that is still clamoring for a sequel.
Rosa Salazar headlines the film as Alita, a cyborg whose broken body is found by Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz). Although Alita can’t remember her life before Ido, she quickly takes to Iron City and befriends a boy named Hugo (Keean Johnson). Alita also makes enemies out of Iron City’s elite, including Vector (Leave the World Behind‘s Mahershala Ali) and Ido’s ex-wife, Dr. Chiren (Jennifer Connelly). And even Alita’s lethal weapons may fall short when compared to the cybernetic assassins led by Zapan (Ed Skrein).
